METROPOÈME

Sergiu Huzum
France, 1970
33 min.

He and she meet by chance on the Parisian metro. They are, were, or will be – or not –  together in this world without time but with infinite space of metropoems.

Uncoincidentally, Sergiu Huzum started working on his first French film, Metropoème, while at home, in communist Romania, Lucian Pintilie’s The Reenactment, on which he was the DoP, was making the history — but especially the mythology — of the most famous dissident film. Although the “transtrav”, that effect of the opposition between zoom and traveling-back that was patented by the filmmaker in 1963, had been used in several Romanian films already, Huzum needed a whole transtrav film, not just a film with transtrav – and the French Radio-television offered him the chance. Inspired by the new French novel, the filmmaker breaks Paris’s chronological and geographical whole, and with it the chance for a classical narrative, with a timid beginning and an unhappy ending, of a couple bearing the entire anguish of the city. (Călin Boto)

Data proiecție și locație

Sunday, 1st of October | 16:00

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
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Sergiu Huzum

Sergiu Huzum (b. 1933 – d. 2004) graduated from the Institute of Theatre and Film Arts from Bucharest in 1956, and less than ten years later he was already a star of Studio Sahia, through collaborations with veteran filmmaker Mirel Ilieșiu, but also through his own documentaries. Cinema history remembers him especially as the DoP of Lucian Pintilie’s first films, Sunday at 6 (1966) and The Reenactment (1970). In 1963 he patented the cinematographic process of the transtrav (similar to the dolly zoom), obtained through the simultaneity of zoom and traveling. He is invited to travel to Paris with his wife, the poet Mioara Cremene, to direct Metropoème within the short-lived experimental filmmaking studio Center for Research of the French Radio-television. He decides to stay in France, where he works for a long time in television, travelling the world for his reports. In 1999 he published a book of essays written in Romanian, Subjective Objectives (Albatros Publishing House), and almost 20 years later, in 2014, The Filmmakers Union of Romania published another volume of his essays, Looking at the World Through Words, an editorial project of Ana Blandiana, Rodică Lăzărescu and Romulus Rusan.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • DIRECTOR: Sergiu Huzum
  • SCRIPT: Mioara Cremene
  • CAST: Xandra Stery, Pierre Rousseau
  • CAMERA: Sergiu Huzum
  • DOP: Sorin Popescu
  • EDITI: Yvonne Martin, Jacqueline Degraeve
  • MUSIC: Germaine May, Sergiu Huzum
  • PRODUCTION: Service de la recherche de la Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française

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